Knit variegated yarn patterns

This weekend, I’ll be doing a trunk show at KNOTS in Chardon Ohio and, along with a huge pile of yarn, Mini-Skeins, and Ombre Kits, I’ll also be taking a stash of some really amazing one-of-a-kind colourways. They are the result of several weeks of pure colour-play, experimenting with the dyes and seeing what happens...

When I realized that my whole knitting life was turning into a lace festival, I decided I'd better add something simpler to occupy my time on the train and preserve what passes for my sanity. At Rhinebeck, I only made one yarn purchase (no, seriously). It was, ironically, the first yarn I saw. I fell in love with it instantly. It's from a firm in Texas called Brooks Farms and it's a variegated wool/silk worsted called Four Play. (Snicker.) The colorway snagged my attention, and Joe's, too–he…

My friend made this one-of-a-kind baby blanket using my On the Porch blanket knitting pattern & Juniper Moon Farm Cumulus Dappled multi-color variegated yarn in the 'Lily by the Sea' colorway (#109). It’s gorgeous! Very easy to knit with worsted yarn. It's the perfect choice for a beginning k

Variegated yarn is often shied away from due to the thought that it is only good for Stockinette stitch, but you can knit so much more with it. For example:

If you’re like me, and like most knitters I know, you’ve probably bought a skein or several of sock yarn (let’s not talk about other kinds of yarn right now, OK?) with no real ide…

I know a lot of knitters are multi-crafters, doing knitting as well as crochet or weaving or other yarn (or non-yarn) crafts. And of course yarn looks different when we use it in different crafts, …

Swiss Check Scarf If I had one inspiration for this scarf, it was the planned color pooling pictures that keep popping up in my Facebook feed (dude, I follow a lot of knitters). If I had two inspirations for this scarf, it was PCP (such a bad acronym!) and laziness; the idea of fiddling with a yarn and a design until I had nailed a certain color pattern seemed about as appealing to me as taking all three of my children to the dentist by myself for concurrent appointments. So I went with a…

You’ve probably seen wavy stitch patterns like Feather and Fan/Old Shale before. These patterns combine increases and decreases unevenly spaced across a row in such a way that it creates a wa…

See how to make this hat in a knit stitch that looks harder than it really is. Free pattern using Red Heart Baby Hugs Medium - so soft